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Obama hooks up new school broadband plan

Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)

President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a new government partnership with the private sector worth nearly three billion dollars to hook up an extra 20 millio...

Best is yet to come, says Facebook's Zuckerberg

Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)

The 10 years since the founding of Facebook have been an "amazing journey," but the best is still to come, Mark Zuckerberg says. Zuckerberg, the founder and chi...

Apple claws back share in US with new iPhones

Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)

Apple has regained ground in the US smartphone market with its latest iPhone release, a survey showed Tuesday. The California giant captured 41.8 percent of sma...

Mobile Asia holds key to Facebook's future growth

Feb 03, 2014 (AFP)

As Facebook celebrates its 10th birthday, one of its biggest challenges is to tap the mobile market in emerging Asian economies, where it can drive expansion af...

Google shucks off Motorola; good idea or bad decision?

Feb 02, 2014 (UPI)

Google, which bought Motorola Mobility in 2011 for $12.5 billion, announced last week it is selling the smartphonemaker to PC manufacturer Lenovo for $2.9 billi...

Facebook battles to stay young and cool

Feb 02, 2014 (AFP)

Sixteen-year-old Owen Fairchild doesn't hang out at Facebook as much as he did when he was just a kid. It is not that he and his friends are abandoning the soci...

Lenovo signals 'global ambitions' with Motorola deal

Feb 02, 2014 (AFP)

In 1984, with only $25,000 in Chinese government funding and a dusty 20-square-metre bungalow as their headquarters, a small group of scientists in Beijing foun...

Holographic diagnostics

Jan 31, 2014 (SPX)

'Smart' holograms, which are currently being tested to monitor diabetes, and could be used to monitor a wide range of medical and environmental conditions in fu...

Twitter gets 900 patents, ends dispute with IBM

Jan 31, 2014 (AFP)

Twitter has acquired more than 900 patents from computing giant IBM, ending a dispute between the two companies, a joint announcement said Friday. The statement...

Google share surge boosted by hot earnings

Jan 31, 2014 (AFP)

Google shares marched upward on Thursday as earnings figures showed the Internet search titan remains a cash machine even as lifestyles shift to mobile gadgets....

Google sheds Motorola in $2.91 bn deal with Lenovo

Jan 30, 2014 (AFP)

Google agreed Wednesday to sell Motorola to Chinese tech giant Lenovo for $2.91 billion, after a lackluster two-year effort to turn around the smartphone maker ...

Facebook shares leap with profit jump

Jan 30, 2014 (AFP)

Facebook said Wednesday that profit soared in 2013 on the back of sizzling mobile ad revenue as the social network's membership swelled. The world's biggest soc...

New transparent display system could provide heads-up data

Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)

Transparent displays have a variety of potential applications - such as the ability to see navigation or dashboard information while looking through the windshi...

Expanding our view of vision

Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)

Every time you open your eyes, visual information flows into your brain, which interprets what you're seeing. Now, for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have ...

New social network aims for real-time connections

Jan 30, 2014 (AFP)

Walk into a room of people, and your smartphone can tell if you have a connection to any of them, if it can find the right data. A social networking app called ...

Lenovo buy of Motorola strengthens Apple rivals: analysts

Jan 30, 2014 (AFP)

Google's sale of faded mobile phone star Motorola Mobility to Chinese computer titan Lenovo promises to strengthen Apple's rivals at home and abroad, according ...

Tablet sales jumped 50% in 2013: survey

Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)

Global sales of tablet computers surged 50.6 percent last year, with Apple clinging to the top vendor spot amid strong gains by rivals, a survey showed Wednesda...

Yahoo takes hit, revenue drop overshadows profit rise

Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)

Yahoo reported on Tuesday that its quarterly profit jumped at the end of last year, but revenues sank in a troubling sign for the struggling Internet pioneer. T...

Icahn snaps up Apple shares as price dips

Jan 28, 2014 (AFP)

Activist investor Carl Icahn fired off word on Tuesday that he beefed up his Apple stock holdings by a half-billion dollars as the share price dipped. "Just bou...

Apple shares tumble despite new revenue high

Jan 28, 2014 (AFP)

Record iPhone and iPad sales pushed Apple quarterly revenue to a new high but shares tumbled Monday over concerns of weaker profits ahead in fierce mobile gadge...